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    If you read it he didn’t steal it, apparently FIFA gave it to him for a bribe and the FIFA president shafted the players with a replica

    With how corrupt the FIFA organization is, I could see them doing this

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      344 days ago

      With Trump as the only source of that information, I’m not going to take that at face value.

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      254 days ago

      It clearly doesn’t make sense that the FIFA would spend a small fortune on creating a trophy, only to give the winner a replica. It is concerning to me that you still take Trump’s word at face value, no matter how obvious and self-serving the lie.

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        114 days ago

        At the same time it’s usually a safe bet to give FIFA no benefit of the doubt whatsoever

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          I have no doubt that FIFA bribes everyone, including Trump. It’s just in this particular instance that, if it was their intent to bribe Trump with a trophy, they would have created a second one with real gold instead of giving Chelsea a replica. It seems much more likely that Trump just stole it and FIFA didn’t raise a stink about it in order to preserve relations.

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          33 days ago

          This is one of those “an unstoppable force meets an immovable object” sort of situations.